captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Some of us were using computers 50 years ago, but the only paper clips around then were to keep the punch-card coding sheets together.

1977 I was operating an IBM 370/145

Ah.

I have had some acquaintance with an IBM 370/158. And then an IBM 3084.

1975 – I was operating an IBM 360. Registrar General’s Department, Births, Deaths and Marriages.

When Matthew was born, I did an entire print run to get an unsigned, but original birth certificate for him. (All issued birth certificates are copies.) I had to write the print run off as a bad paper feed. I decided not to sign the print (I had access to the RG’s signature stamp), as I thought I could get into legal trouble if found out.